The Press: Biography of a Story

Plague of every magazine publisher is the plagiarist. Last week Liberty, nickel weekly, announced in an editorial:

"Every magazine, at one time or another, probably has had The Gold Bug or The Murders in the Rue Morgue sent in with some of the names changed, and has sent the fraudulent manuscript back as a matter of course.

"The August 16 issue of Liberty contained a story headed The Biography of Loar, by Parker Bloser. It was a good story and well liked by a lot of people who read it. The trouble with it was...

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